KC5YKX

Reid Hill   1042 Burkshire Dr   Corpus Christi   Texas   78412

Nueces County   EL17HR   CQ Zone 04   ITU Zone 07

NAQP RTTY Feb 04
Home Up ARRL DX 2002 CQ WPX 2002 IARU HF 2002 Texas QP CQ WW 2002 ARRL SS 2002 ARRL 10M 2002 ARRL RR 2003 ARRL DX 2003 CQ WW 2003 ARRL SS 2003 ARRL RR 2004 CQ WPX 2004 ARRL DX 2004 NAQP RTTY Feb 04 Various Contest

kc5ykx at swbell.net

 

Man did I ever have a blast in this one. The bands where good and the rate was fairly nice. I like that everyone is at 100 watts or less in the contest. Yes having stacked yagis still is an advantage but not having to go against lots of KW stations sure is sweet. Makes the playing field a little more level. Equipment worked very nice. This was the first real contest effort with the tribander in the air and it worked very nice. It is good to have a real antenna on 15 and 20 meters. This was also the first contest with the Rigblaster pro using FSK in Writelog w/ MMTTY. I liked the way it worked. AFSK is alright but there is somthing about FSK that makes it special. Alot easier to work stations while S&Ping and it made band changes a breeze. No more readjusting the input when I changed bands like I had to do with AFSK.

 

I played on the Austin Powers #1 RTTY team and we did well. We placed 5th out of about 15 teams. Not to shabby. I placed 10th in the 5 call district behind the likes of AA5AU, AB5K, KI5XP and K5DU to name a few. Here are my comments to the 3830 reflector.

 

Call: KC5YKX
Operator(s): KC5YKX
Station: KC5YKX
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Gulf Coast of Texas
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 
80: 75 33
40: 103 42
20: 112 38
15: 79 33
10: 32 16
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Total: 401 162 Total Score = 64,962
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Team: Austin Powers #1
Comments:
I had a blast! Best 10 hour RTTY contest around. Bands seemed in good shape. 40
was hot! FSK is alot easier and seems to be more reliable than AFSK. Thanks for
all the Qs. Even had a few 5 banders. (VA3PC, W6YX and N2WK come to mind)

Station:
TH3MK3 at 40 feet
40/80 trapped V at 35 feet
FT1000MP MKV @ 100 watts FSK
RIGblaster Pro - upgrade to FSK
Writelog w/ MMTTY

Reid
KC5YKX